Accredited courses in playwork are being offered by the new training division of one of the UK's largest voluntary providers of out-of-school care to address the shortage of qualified playworkers....
Principle Giving opportunities that help children to become aware of, explore and question issues of differences in gender, ethnicity, language, religion and culture and of special educational needs...
Childcare is now as important to the British economy as the transport system, the trade and industry secretary told delegates at the Daycare Trust annual conference in London last week.
A leading children's charity has called for a children's centre to be set up in every community, to make it as easy for families to access childcare services for school-age children as it is to access...
Glasgow City Council decided to close 27 of its nursery schools in the south-west of the city this week as public sector nursery nurses continued their industrial action.
Day nurseries and other small businesses in the UK and Northern Ireland have been warned to be on their guard after companies have called out of the blue claiming to be owed hundreds of pounds for...
A 3m package to help early years professionals with using computers in a pre-school environment has sparked claims by practitioners that the money could be better spent elsewhere.
<P>The European Union should play a greater role in influencing the quality of childcare delivered in its member states, a childcare expert said last week. </P>
Private day nurseries are bracing themselves for another media scare as a TV documentary using 'secret' footage is due to be aired this week. The programme reportedly shows overworked and unqualified...